Homage to John Dryden

As one can probably guess from the title, this book is a biography of John Dryden, an English poet, literary critic, translator, and playwright who was appointed England's first Poet Laureate in 1668. He is seen as dominating the literary life of Restoration England to such a point that the period came to be known in literary circles as the Age of Dryden. Interestingly, the author of this book is T. S. Eliot, who himself is a celebrated poet and was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1948, «for his outstanding, pioneer contribution to present-day poetry.»